Cultural Italy

Cultural Italy

  • Joined: August 8, 2020
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Jim Caskey

The trip was great! Kolbe hotel was good. Napolean hotel in Rome provided excellent service, but beds and pillows were very comfortable. Service was top notch. The hotel in Sorrento was good. Great trip overall.

Discover Castiglion Fiorentino

TUSCANY'S HIDDEN JEM
Located on a hill just over 300 meters, Castiglion Fiorentino offers you a relaxing view: from its squares and terraces, the sight of the landscape of 'Val di Chiana' disappears toward the horizon. The small village had already evolved during Etruscan times since the VI century B.C., but it was not until the Roman Empire that the area became more prominent.

Chip-and-PIN credit cards

NEWS
Very soon, before traveling to Italy and Europe in general, you may want to take into consideration upgrading your magnetic-stripe credit cards to a chip-and-PIN card, as less and less merchants have been accepting the swipe and sign credit cards.

Arena Opera Museum

PERMANENT EXHIBITION
At Palazzo Forti, Verona. The mission of the show AMO, which stands for Arena Opera Museum, is to contribute to the musical education of the audiences and to further spread the culture of the Italian Opera, thanks to the exhibit of original documents and the use of multimedia techniques.

Claudio Abbado, Conductor, dies at 80

NEWS
Claudio Abbado is one of those many artists Italy is also known for and proud of. This great conductor - perhaps the greatest in Italy after Toscanini - was born in Milan in 1933 from an educated middle class family. The father was a talented violinist who guided his two children to the strict, but at the same time free and playful, study of the seven notes.

Scott Parish

Hi Alessia,
Our trip was wonderful! All of the guides and drivers were on time and professional and the hotels ranged from great to good…I’m glad we switched primarily from Hotel Romance to Hotel Lunetta in Rome. The family absolutely loved the trip.

Kandinsky at Palazzo Reale in Milan

ART EXHIBITION
Runs through May 4th 2014
The show will trace the artistic and spiritual evolution of this great visionary and revolutionary artist, from his colorful and figurative works of his art school period up to his most avant-garde pieces. Vasily Vasilievich Kandinsky was born in Moscow December 4, 1866, and four years later he moved with his family to Odessa, Germany. Here, besides attending a classical gymnasium (grammar school), he took drawing lessons as well. "I remember that drawing and a little bit later painting lifted me out of the reality", he wrote later.

La Scala Philharmonic meets the city

REHEARSAL CONCERTS AT LA SCALA
January 26, February 16, March 30, 2014
This is a unique opportunity to attend the rehearsals of the four concerts on the 2014 agenda of the Orchestra at the Teatro alla Scala, and at the same time it is a beautiful occasion as the ticket revenues will support some non-profit association in the area of Milan. 


Andy Warhol at Palazzo Reale in Milan

ART EXHIBITION
Runs through March 9th 2014.
Andy Warhol works from the Peter Brant collection will be hosted in the Palazzo, and the artist’s major periods will be on display, from his early Death and Disaster series, to his celebrity portraits of Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe, until the 1986 self-portrait.

Casey & Jami Kennedy

Thank you so much! Our trip to Italy was beyond amazing. It was more than we could have asked for! Your question is incredibly difficult to answer because I'm not sure we could call out just "highlights" as it was all fabulous. Venice was such a surprise for us. We never dreamed it would be so relaxing and calming there. Just a beautiful city full of wonderful people and history. Florence's beauty was so overwhelming it almost moved us to tears. We experienced so much there! A full afternoon in the countryside and lots of time exploring the city and sights.